Re:Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau
by stevenbedrick on Sunday January 30, 2011 @12:18PM
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Let's see... he doesn't speak Arabic, so any "regular" journalistic skills he might have would be useless, and AFAIK he's not an expert on Egyptian culture and politics, so he doesn't have any special domain expertise that might be useful even without Arabic language skills. I'd personally rather hear more on CNN, MSNBC, etc. from actual Egyptian journalists.
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Re:Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau
by InclinedPlane on Monday January 31, 2011 @02:53AM
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There's an English version of al jazeera, where the anchors and reporters speak English and broadcast to the English speaking world. I doubt speaking Arabic is a necessity to work there.
Re:Egypt shuts down Al Jazeera bureau
by stevenbedrick on Monday January 31, 2011 @12:09PM
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Point taken, but a) they've already got plenty of good anchors, and b) many of the anchors (and all of the reporters that I've seen thus far) seem to speak Arabic as well as English, and can therefore do things like talk to people on the street, understand government broadcasts, etc.